• Essays

    Why Do We Love Heists?
    The Short Answer:
    Competency Porn

    "[H]eists involve people at the top of their skill set—or who used to be—with circumstances that test them strenuously."

    March 22, 2022  By Marion Deeds
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    The Private Eye As Family Man

    How The Long Kiss Goodnight and The Last Boy Scout Brought the PI Film into the ‘90s

    March 21, 2022  By Sam Wiebe
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    How Being A Civil Rights Attorney Influenced My Crime Fiction

    Author and community activist Veronica Gutierrez reflects on the hard lessons learned from her time working as a civil rights lawyer.

    March 21, 2022  By Veronica Gutierrez
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    How One Author Forced Himself to Reconsider Expectations About Violence in Fiction

    Michael Landweber wanted to write a book where violence was absent in all the places we most expected it.

    March 21, 2022  By Michael Landweber
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    Is “The Counselor” Cormac McCarthy’s Overlooked Masterpiece?

    The 2013 noir was a mostly derided flop. But what if it's actually one of McCarthy's more brilliant works?

    March 18, 2022  By Nick Kolakowski
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    What We Can Learn From The Darkest Period in Art History

    "Between 1933 – 1945, the Third Reich confiscated, destroyed, and plundered upwards of 650,000 works of art."

    March 17, 2022  By Lisa Barr
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    The Two Camps of Crime: Christie’s Cool, Cozy Tales of Ratiocination and Highsmith’s Psycho-Sexual Deep Waters

    Wayne Johnson traces the lineage of modern crime fiction.

    March 16, 2022  By Wayne Johnson
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    Why Crime Writers Will Always Be Drawn to the Sea

    Sam Lloyd on the sea as a muse – and an unreliable conspirator.

    March 16, 2022  By Sam Lloyd
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    John Dickson Carr: The Master of the Locked Room-Mystery

    Gigi Pandian celebrates the author who inspired her “Gothic Cozy” voice as a writer.

    March 15, 2022  By Gigi Pandian
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    9 Films That Explore the Relationship Between Journalism and Truth

    Can cinema capture the heroic efforts of investigative journalists?

    March 14, 2022  By Maggie Smith
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